i had a bug once where i was in emperor mode and i was in the create ship section of the menu. i clicked to disable the auto ship building, then after creating some ships for me, i set the location for the ships to come from in an empire that wasnt mine. Then i just spamed the dropship button and it created a whole bunch of drop ships for that empire. i havent been able to recreate it though (actullt i havent really tried yet)

Lots of ships just flew away from the stars (or teleported, wasn't really paying attention)And then they started to come back! Very weird bug

Ugh. Had to redo this whole post. I'm very lazy...

Again, this image has > 1000 views, I need to post more stuff to imgur

But what the heck is going on with this one ... Ships leave for quests sometimes, and then they would resurface like this. But drop ships ??? They have no reason to head out into outer space, and why are there so many?

Lots of ships just flew away from the stars (or teleported, wasn't really paying attention)And then they started to come back! Very weird bug

Ugh. Had to redo this whole post. I'm very lazy...

Again, this image has > 1000 views, I need to post more stuff to imgur

But what the heck is going on with this one ... Ships leave for quests sometimes, and then they would resurface like this. But drop ships ??? They have no reason to head out into outer space, and why are there so many?

Did they perhaps defect from an empire that transcended?

It's very weird how this is getting so many views. Also no the empire transcended, well actually it tried to, but i made in degenerate to stop it then I used the ignorance gift. It has about almost every star under their control too. Also, when i try to move them, them spin around rapidly and they can't use their guns anymore. Also I see some mind control pods, which is the weirdest thing i saw. The strangest bug I've ever seen

Lots of ships just flew away from the stars (or teleported, wasn't really paying attention)And then they started to come back! Very weird bug

Ugh. Had to redo this whole post. I'm very lazy...

Again, this image has > 1000 views, I need to post more stuff to imgur

But what the heck is going on with this one ... Ships leave for quests sometimes, and then they would resurface like this. But drop ships ??? They have no reason to head out into outer space, and why are there so many?

Did they perhaps defect from an empire that transcended?

It's very weird how this is getting so many views. Also no the empire transcended, well actually it tried to, but i made in degenerate to stop it then I used the ignorance gift. It has about almost every star under their control too. Also, when i try to move them, them spin around rapidly and they can't use their guns anymore. Also I see some mind control pods, which is the weirdest thing i saw. The strangest bug I've ever seen

Ah I see the problem. Yeah basically when empires start to transcend, I make all the ships dance around. Once the empire goes away, they either disappear with it, or defect and stop dancing.

The code is not ready for empires suddenly ABORTING their transcendence, and the ship crews aren't quite sure what to do.

So we aren't going to sublime into another dimension? You want us to stay around and fight these Dragons and file some paperwork? Nah man I think I'll just keep on dancing

(I've fixed it in the code now though, so it should be a bit harder to abort transcendence, neat trick though )